LONDON Mayoral hopeful Rory Stewart has doubled down on his “controversial” centrist love for sandwich chain Pret a Manger, which he revealed during a recent interview with Channel 4’s Cathy Newman. When asked what his favourite London pub was he replied: “I’m not a big boozer… I’m the kind of guy who spends his time going to Pret a Manger.”
The response from m Je re my C o r by n’s L e f t-w i n g social media outriders turned a throw away y comment into a full- - b l o w n c u l t u r e w a r. S t e w a r t w a s declared “an utter fraud” and suddenly class war was declared on Pret a Manger. The Londoner will be highly disappointed if the sandwich chain doesn’t announce a centrist tuna melt dedicated to Stewart before the week is out.
It was also revealed that just after Corbyn won the Labour leadership election in 2015, during his first meeting with staff on a Saturday afternoon, he ate a sandwich… from Pret. Nothing’s too good for the workers. But perhaps there is some truth in
LONDON Film Festival was in full swing yesterday, as US stars Laura Dern and Adam Driver came over for the UK premiere of Marriage Story. Afterwards, director Noah Baumbach attended the afterparty at The May Fair Hotel. Despite its title, the film tells the story of Driver’s character’s divorce from his wife, played by Scarlett Johansson.
Elsewhere, Mark Rylance and Gana Bayarsaikhan went to the premiere of their film of the JM Coetzee book Waiting for the Barbarians, and Shia LaBeouf attended the premiere of Honey Boy, based on his relationship with his father. LaBeouf has recently quashed rumours that he knocked out Tom Hardy while filming 2012 film Lawless. “It’s a bunch of bullsh*t,” he said, but conceded: “We used to wrestle all the time.”
Meanwhile, actor Pippa Bennett-Warner and Aki Omoshaybi attended the premiere of romantic drama Real — which is Star Wars actor Omoshaybi’s first feature as director.
SHIA LABEOUF PIPPA BENNETT-WARNER AKI OMOSHAYBI MARK RYLANCE
GANA BAYARSAIKHAN
A FIRST edition of Das Kapital was on sale at Frieze but its creator might not have been thrilled to see its price. “Marx’s examination of capitalist production processes reveals how commodification necessarily generates a structural imbalance between different social classes,” read the blurb on the item. Indeed, especially when said first edition would have set you back £500,000.